You can if it’s pointy. If it’s not edgy you can’t do slashy-slashies though, and that’s definitely a shame.

I had only seen the trainwreck of a boxart from Konami’s castlevania double pack on GBA.

But the actual cartridge is hilarious too. Silly cartoon title wordart, baby blue background with funky sunburst pattern, not a single mention of the two titles that are included…

Perfect, the way IGA intended.

That tracks, it’s like a reverse Kessel Run.

I have those too.

Those are not the game I spent the most on though, they’re the bundle extras, the games I’ve found dirt cheap and thought “yeah, I might play that sometimes”… And I am trying to limit those, I had a phase like that but I don’t care much about the bundles/big sales craze anymore.

Video games are not that expensive IMO, unless you really want it to be. It’s my main hobby, I certainly don’t have a crazy income, but I still have enough games for several lifetimes. My bank account is not the limit here, my time is.

Sure, hardware cost might be a bit steep once in a while, but you don’t really need to go for the cutting edge, and there is no point having everything on release either.

Most of EA’s creativity is spent trying to find new definitions to gambling so they can keep make gambling games without being regulated.

Oh yeah, these terrible execs from other companies who veto female protagonists on principle, insist on implementing the same list of a thousand terrible features in all games regardless of genre, and harass their employees while being protected by HR and the CEO.

Wait, no, those are not the bad ones. You know the bad ones because they’ve worked for toothpaste companies.

In Hollow Knight there’s an accidental one at a pretty climactic moment. Hornet shouts something to get you ready for the big fight. It’s in her usual gibberish language, but lots of people hear it as “GIT GUD!”

There is a spot in Space Quest 6 where you can skip a puzzle and go to the solution immediately… If you already know what to look for. I tried that once, since it was not my first run and I remembered the last step.

At first the narrator wonders how you did that, then he assumes you’ve been using a walkthrough. He shames you and punishes you by slowly draining your score counter… Before reverting it and telling you not to do it again.

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Regarding how quickly Instagram started sending them personal stuff… Letting an app access your location, especially if it’s not a one-time authorisation, is basically telling it who you are.

There was a newspaper investigation recently on data brokers, they approached one to get a sample of their data. It was “anonymous” data, only in the sense it didn’t contain names. Using Apple’s advertiser ID, they had no problem building profiles from specific devices and could easily identify a lot of their own employees, simply because their routine around a location made it clear it was their workplace. And from there, it was not hard to find out on the data what their home address was.

It probably took only location for the burner phone Instagram to know that this is either the same person, or someone closely related to them.

Basically the only positives of getting a key card rather than getting the game from the e-shop is being able to lend the game to anyone or resell it. Nothing else.

Most people I could lend the game to are in my online group so I could do this with virtual cards of e-shop games too, including DLC, and I basically never resell games. One could remark that you need online and a functioning e-shop server to lend a virtual card…but you’ll also need it to install a game from a key card anyway.

If a game is going to require the internet to install/reinstall and is going to sit entirely in my console’s memory, I am not carrying around an extra empty bit of plastic just to be able to start it. I used to get the games I could in physical form, but to me, they finally made it. They essentially made physical cards worse than full digital in every way.

“Gross misconduct, and no other reason”… from 30 people at once? And they’re not going to elaborate on what the “misconduct” was?

Maybe we’re supposed to believe the fact they were all part of the same discussion to unionize was a coincidence, too?

Not sure, but I understood that comment to mean “it would be worth getting angry against YouTube if the videos they removed were about rufus”, not that rufus itself is wrong.

It’s obvious that demo was 99% fake and the eventual end product would have been way more scripted and simple than what he hyped it to be (I mean, it’s Molyneux). But he’s also been backstabbed by Microsoft on that one.

The Kinect prototype he was working with was not the Kinect that was eventually released. At one point Microsoft cut corners and removed the internal processor that was suposed to make Kinect work, leaving the console to deal with all the extra computation. It was barely possible to make a simple Kinect game not run like shit, making something relatively smart and responsive would have been a pipe dream.

Congratulations on not having an addiction problem. If you can “not notice it” and still play the game, you’re not the target.

Dead Cells had one for me, in the boss fight against the Giant. Spoiler.

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As usual the worst part is the title (by design, of course. Gotta farm those clicks).

“there are too many but keep dreaming if you want big sacks of money” is not the guy’s quote. The frankenquote is ambiguous on purpose, it could sound either like sarcasm or like a semi-cautious encouragement.

In the article, he sounds way more negative toward live services than that. There’s no “but”, he just says it’s an “illusion” and it “mostly doesn’t happen”.

I am not in that age group anymore and I can’t tell what war I was supposed to be obsessed with.

Ah, yeah, around that time, maybe Fire Emblem. This is the “Crimean war” I used to be obsessed with, until…

Fuck. I think I found the actual war. Definitely not something I’m enjoying, at all.